Comments about commenting systems - June 2014

And it continues ... Attempting to correct, improve, and manage reply mechanisms to media-created content. 

What about Facebook comments? What about the Disqus commenting system?

Jun 19, 2014 - NY Times - "Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform With New York Times and Washington Post":http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/business/media/new-york-times-and-washington-post-to-develop-platform-for-readers-contributions.html?_r=0

Jun 19, 2014 - Scripting News - "Fixing comments? That's not the problem":http://scripting.com/2014/06/19/fixingCommentsThatsNotTheProblem.html


Excerpts from Dave's post at Scripting News:

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It's hard to imagine it would be better than Disqus or Stack Exchange. Why not go to a commercial vendor with experience to solve this problem? What expertise or developed software does Mozilla have? 

Facebook and Twitter haven't managed to capture the flow of expertise yet. 

I recommend: Get a list of the sites the editorial people at the Times and the Post read. I'd try to automate the process so the list is huge and inclusive. Aggregate them into a river. There's your community of bloggers. Publish the river on your home page. Read what they write, and share it with your readers. This will immediately have huge influence on the both the blogosphere that you include and the ones you don't. Include your competitors.